Not really into these type of animated movies, I can tolerate Shrek though as it has jokes in there for adults.
I watched the movie all the way to the end, good mix of action and humour. Plus Santa is a Russian with two big swords!

Oh, speaking of animation: The Croods is surprisingly entertaining and certainly one of the best things Dreamworks has done yet. Though I've not seen Rise yet, this one had a great comic sensibility - one of those films where every scene ends on an up so anything too American schmaltzy is forgotten. Kinda like The Simpsons back in the day.

The subjects of Room 237 are a bit nutty. For me, seeing such a broad spectrum of theories being trotted out and applied to the same film really hammers home how subjective artistic criticism and interpretation is. Art is a mirror, and analysis is often spectacularly incorrect.

Pac-man-ate-my-wife wrote:
@repairmanjack what did you expect Room 237 to be?

Coherent, at least. I expected what was advertised - and reviewed - in the national press: a semiotic analysis of some of the hidden meanings of what is still an enigmatic and mesmerising film. I expected more on the tricks and puzzles Kubrick put into it (the film grazes these briefly, but then starts screaming nonsense in your face again). I expected a discussion, at least, on the very final frame of the film (the photograph).

I've chatted about it with a couple of pals this morning, to see if perhaps I was missing the point. They're as bewildered by it as I am. It honestly feels like a spoof of the documentary the press have claimed it to be.

Taken me a long time to finallt ywatch this. Just what I expected, loads of gunfights and loads of over the top gore 7/10

The Watch

After the bad press this got I was quite surprised by this film and found a lot of it really funny. Some critics compared it to ghostbusters which is unfair as its nothing like it. Its a bit stupid at times but the cast are briliant 7.5/10

I have a weak spot for Nicholas Cage films so if you're not a fan of his you may need to avoid this one. It's a really odd film carried by Cage's performance. We laughed our ways through it but I can see some seeing it as a terrible film.